Airlines had to pay more for two optional upgrades that could warn pilots about sensor malfunctions. Boeing now plans to make one of the features standard.

2 hours ago

"tHe FrEe MaRkEt WiLl ReGuLaTe ItSeLf" ????

There is something wrong when safety features are considered upgrades!!

The price of corporate greed: 346 lives...

FAA should have mandated these parts be required!!! Not optional!!! Parts were charged as UPGRADES by Boeing?? That's CRIMINAL!!!

so airlines picked profits over safety, gotcha

Yet another unfounded, incorrect and misleading piece to cover up the broken regulatory approval system that allowed the Boing 373-Max airplanes. Ethiopian Airlines safety record is implacable and its pilots are competent with more than 70 years of service under their belt. The world doesn’t care if #Boing|’s reputation is in jeopardy, the world demands the truth - the only truth that will avert such tragedies from occurring again.

Disgusting. Boeing bagged BILLIONS in military contracts for “defense” spending last year alone. Safety gear should not be an add-on. Corporate greed from soulless monsters who just can’t profit enough takes hundreds of lives and it can be guaranteed that nobody at Boeing will be held accountable, or even bat an eye at what they’ve caused. It’s sick.

How disgusting. It’s always about money isn’t never about human life

Hope the kin of the victims sue the pants of both Boeing and the regulator involved.

Indonesia’s aviation safety regulator confirmed an off-duty pilot was aboard a Boeing Co. 737 Max 8 a day before the aircraft crashed, after people familiar with the matter said that a third person was in the cockpit and helped the crew disable a m Read more ...alfunctioning flight-control system.

5 hours ago

Yahoo Finance The two crashes killed more than 300 people since October.

As the pilots of the doomed Boeing jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia fought to control their planes, they lacked two notable safety features in their cockpits.

7 hours ago

The New York Times The Boeing jets that crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia lacked 2 safety features that could have warned of a malfunction. They would have cost the airlines extra — the kind of upgrade that can be lucrative for plane manufacturers.

Airlines had to pay extra for two optional upgrades that could warn pilots about sensor malfunctions. Now the company is making one of them standard.

8 hours ago

“... you want an airplane that doesn’t crash?
That’ll cost you extra...”

There is something wrong when safety features are considered upgrades.

The almighty dollar, at work again.

Again money over people's well being.
This is why I cant comprehend some people arguments that corporations will do the right thing without government regulations.

Boeing should be put out of business. They should build planes that do not require upgrades to flight properly. Putting greed above human lives is unconscionable.

Scapegoat. Boeing must face the law for killing valuable humans. Too arrogant

This calls for a class action by victims' families on Boeing. Safety systems s not a compromise, re uppose to be inbuilt into the air craft...not an option that should be bought on a separate package if the buyer feels like it.

Remember when Boeing's CEO response letter to a crash that killed 157 people said "Saftey is at the core of who we are at Boeing"..I guess he left out that it cost extra and he was right when safety is just another word for profit. Where the hell is the FAA! Do your job. This is like if car manufactures charged extra for seat belts. Saftey should NEVER cost extra! Boeing doesn't get brownie point for doing the right thing after so many people have died.

Should've never charged for safety features in the first place. Safety is #1, especially and specifically in that industry.

Might want to fix this Boeing....your reputation is competing with your stock price

Business Insider The company wants to move past the crash in October last year that killed 189 people on board.

The FBI has joined the widening criminal probe into how Boeing's 737 Max 8 jets were deemed as safe in the months before two of them crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia,

19 hours ago

follow the money

Nothing to see here.. just China Computer Chips..that can turn it On/Off

All blames for the MAX 7 disaster go to Big Boeing via the FAA.
Did Boeing and FAA collude to compromise the safety of crews and passengers?
FBI is supposed to answer this and other questions...

So, they'll investigate for over 2 years, not sure of what they are looking for, or why, and then claim there must've been Russian collusion that coerced the boards decision to re-certify the 737 MAX...

I fucking love science Hope and her baby are the latest victims of the palm oil industry.

There isn't a day goes by where my fellow humans don't end up disgusting me :(

the sooner humans become extinct the better -

Read ingredient lists and stay away from palm.

Sometimes, at night, I look at the sky, the stars and the moon and it makes me stop and think, "somewhere out there is the asteroid that could end us". I hope I get to see it.

What kind of a monster ( sub-human ) could do this to a mother and her baby! She probably took all of those pellets to protect her new born baby. This story made me sick to my stomach. Heartbreaking.

Humans are a plague upon this earth.

Reuters The world's biggest planemaker Boeing faced growing obstacles to returning its grounded 737 MAX fleet to the skies on Wednesday, while chilling details emerged of an Indonesian crash with similarities to the Ethiopian disaster.

US is declining in moral and credibility.
US is so corrupted now, they have ex wall street heading US Treasury, exBoeing Executive in FAAS
Capitol Hill are full of lawmakers who are paid to make laws that favour the big corps
White supremacist terrorists arising in the US
Home to the world largest terrorist group, the NRA responsible for killing more American lives on American soil than anyone else.

Boeing doing ANYTHING except accepting responsibility for bad design.

With my aerophobia, am now too scared to fly,I don't know how I will go for my vacation in US,

When your hugely profitable airplane becomes the world's biggest and most expensive paperweight. Too bad, Boeing. You were a great company until you lost your moral compass by getting into bed with the most corrupt government in the history of the United States.

Cut the crap. Boeing is a ruined brand.

clone the recorder data, have several agencies to evaluate it.

BA stock up Tuesday...Poor Pilot and Co-pilot

Extremely Sad & Unfortunate for Aviation industry.. All the Best to Aviation Industry to over come the Situation